My baby is 2 weeks old and cries a lot sudden, his grandma think it's because of tummy as he get pain in tummy and have they have started to give him drops of Liquorice extract water on a room temperature (which IMO is strange), how to know what is going on with my baby? As I hate grandma experiments on her.

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Babies cry when they 1) are hungry, 2) need a new diaper, 3) are sick, 4) feel like crying.

If the three first conditions have been checked, your baby is "just crying". It happens a lot. No worries. It's been encoded in our genes, it's a retrieval signal sent from baby to mother when mother left the baby alone in the old savannah to fetch some food.

If only this list was complete - 5) are lonely or afraid 6) are tired 7) are overwhelmed by new impressions ....and I suppose if we think hard we will come up with a few more points.
– StephieDec 8 '15 at 7:59

There is also "in pain" or "sick".... While most crying is quite normal and mundane, how does a parent know (a new one especially!) when it's time to be worried about crying?
– AcireDec 8 '15 at 9:47